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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2007 / Active

Bailey C. Moseley

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Bailey C. Moseley is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moseley authored 620 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 19 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Case Corp. v. Hi-Class Business Systems of America, Inc. (175 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 466 of these were attributed to Moseley by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2006	Case Corp. v. Hi-Class Business Systems of America, Inc.	184 S.W.3d 760	175
1997	Kirk v. State	949 S.W.2d 769	141
2015	in the Interest of S.S., a Child†	471 S.W.3d 915	134
2000	Espalin v. Children's Medical Center of Dallas	27 S.W.3d 675	126
2011	In the Interest of J.L.B. and J.R.B., Children†	349 S.W.3d 836	119
2008	Rich v. Olah†	274 S.W.3d 878	117
2008	McGrath v. FSI Holdings, Inc.	246 S.W.3d 796	113
2012	Matthew Ryan Wilson v. State†	391 S.W.3d 131	106
2003	Toles v. Toles	113 S.W.3d 899	104
2011	PopCap Games, Inc. v. MUMBOJUMBO, LLC	350 S.W.3d 699	101
2007	Deener v. State†	214 S.W.3d 522	100
2004	Crossmark, Inc. v. Hazar	124 S.W.3d 422	100
2007	In Re Epperson†	213 S.W.3d 541	94
1999	Sherman v. State	12 S.W.3d 489	94
2007	Abdullah v. State†	211 S.W.3d 938	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 644 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Bailey C. Moseley on?: Bailey C. Moseley is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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19 years on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).